Advice before adding of this pre-1700 Clement profile?

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I can add a to the profile of Nathaniel Clement. This is who I can add:

  • Mother: Deliverance Oddihorn, married Robert Clement @ Great Island 18 Dec 1690

These are the sources I am using:                        Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016).

https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/rd/7718/67/141297813

Should I contact one of the pre-1700 projects or know about any style guidelines before proceeding? Thank you!

WikiTree profile: Nathaniel Clement
in Genealogy Help by Marcia Hicks G2G6 (8.1k points)
edited by Ellen Smith

1 Answer

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Your source is a vital records entry for the marriage of Nathaniel's parents, who are identified in the profile, apparently based only a secondary source. By adding your sourced info to the profile, you will be improving its quality. This is the kind of thing we hope will happen to profiles like that one. smiley

Also, the profile for the father, Robert Clement, is completely unsourced, and there is no profile for the mother. Adding this source to the father's profile would be a great improvement. Furthermore, even though this marriage record may be the only piece of evidence we have for the mother, it would be a sufficient basis for creating a profile for her (with a realistic guesstimate for her year of birth). There are some other Odiornes recorded in colonial Massachusetts -- she probably is related to at least one of them, but we don't need to identify parents or siblings in order to create a profile for her.

by Ellen Smith G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
edited by Ellen Smith
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Thanks so much for this very detailed response.  I am preparing for an extended out of town trip, so I may not get around to this until I return home at the end of the month.  I am fairly new to WikiTree, but I am becoming more familiar with the platform and I'm looking forward to improving this profile.

Marcia Coffman Hicks
I'd also suggest using the freely-available version on Archive.org for those who don't have a $ubscription.

https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofha02have/page/67/mode/1up

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